Re: MacBook boot.

2015-05-21 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 07:18:30AM +, stefano gozzi wrote: >I think you'll need a jessie 64bit, that contains uefi bootable, i don't >think that a squeeze supports that (even a wheezy, i think). For any I can confirm that. I recently installed jessie on an ECS Liva that uses UEFI. I

Re: suspend / hibernate via lid / button doesn't work

2015-05-21 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:06:55PM +0200, Damjan Zemljič wrote: >Ah, it still does not work. Celebrating too soon. >For some reason it did, for a while, and for some reason it doesn't >anymore. > >Don't know what to look for in the logs. Any tip / advice? Have you tried with an ex

Re: sl-modem-daemon unreliable

2012-07-05 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 04:22:21PM -0700, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > After much struggle I've got the sl-modem-daemon working on my laptop. > It's an Everex Stepnote NM3500W, with the VIA P4M800 motherboard chipset. On my Dell Inspiron 8600, lshw says: product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) A

Re: please guide how install debian squeeze on asus eee pc 1215b

2011-11-28 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 07:09:28PM -0800, manmath sahu wrote: >please guide how install debian squeeze on asus eee pc 1215b You could start by going here: http://4mhz.de/debian1215n.html Not sure how different revision b is from revision n but it's the closest match in the link below, which

Problems with vaio PCG-6J2L (aka VGN-SZ120P) More info...

2011-01-19 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 08:07:13PM -0500, I wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:45:50PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > > Dne, 01. 01. 2011 07:28:22 je A. F. Cano napisal(a): > >> Hello and happy new year, > >> > >> I'm trying to determine if this Sony Vaio PCG-6

Re: Debian live (lenny) boot options for vaio PCG-6J2L (aka VGN-SZ120P)

2011-01-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:45:50PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 01. 01. 2011 07:28:22 je A. F. Cano napisal(a): >> Hello and happy new year, >> >> I'm trying to determine if this Sony Vaio PCG-6J2L, which according to >> a web search is "known in the west as V

Debian live (lenny) boot options for vaio PCG-6J2L (aka VGN-SZ120P)

2010-12-31 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello and happy new year, I'm trying to determine if this Sony Vaio PCG-6J2L, which according to a web search is "known in the west as VGN-SZ120P", has a bad video card/ chip (Nvidia 7400go) or the problem is a driver issue. The machine has a partial install of windows and no Sony diagnostics, so

Smartlink modem driver doesn't send "RING" messages.

2009-02-25 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, This is new behavior in the new Lenny installation. Under Etch it worked fine. I have restored the same configuration files that worked before, but now the modem never answers. The following init-chat line used to work before: init-chat "" AT+FCLASS=8 OK ATN1S0=0S13=1 OK The S0 regist

Re: wireless on an old Thinkpad 600 - more specifically sound on 600E

2008-11-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:42:26PM +0800, Clayton wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:10:56 +0530 > "justin joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_broken_sound_on_ThinkPad_600 > > > > And am sure there would a a lot and lot of google hits for the s

Re: wireless on an old Thinkpad 600 - more specifically sound on 600E

2008-10-29 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:29:08PM +0800, Clayton wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:15:14 +0100 > Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > All good advice, but to add some bad news, support for older > hardware sometimes seems to be going more then it is coming lately. I > also hav

Re: CPU hammered on Dell Inspiron with new install.

2008-04-27 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 06:25:00PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On a brand new install of a Debian-based distro (Kubuntu 8.04) the CPU > load is very high. > ... A long time ago, I think it was in woody, the kde sound daemon did something like this on my laptop. I decided to not use it and that wa

Dell 8600, DVD/2d HD hot-pluggable?

2008-01-24 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I've looked around but didn't find the answer. Way back when I first installed woody on this laptop, removing the DVD drive locked it up. First, from the hardware perspective, would I cause damage by taking the DVD, 2d HD or floppy drive in/out of the ultrabay? Since the above experience I

Re: sl-modem-daemon and vgetty: supposed to work but how to config?

2007-04-22 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:29:29AM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > > ... > The modem never answers. Anyone using sl-modem-daemon and vgetty? > I eagerly await any hints, or better, config files. Thanks! Well, after some more work, problem fixed. All those errors are not critica

sl-modem-daemon and vgetty: supposed to work but how to config?

2007-04-19 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings: After the sarge->etch upgrade, I noticed that sound card and soft modem hardware on this Dell 8600 was properly detected as never before. After not being able to use the pctel modem with any 2.6 kernel (I'm now running a locally compiled 2.6.18) I decided I wanted to use the sl-modem-

Re: thinkpad 600e and lucent wavelan pcmcia

2007-04-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:48:41PM -0400, Gabriel Farrell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian on an old thinkpad 600e by way of the > testing netinst cd, but I don't have an ethernet pcmcia and I'm having > no luck with this wireless one -- a lucent wavelan pcmcia card that Strangely I'

Re: easy laptop install?

2006-02-19 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:21:26AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > I know this list is committed to debian on laptops, but see quite a few > references to debian derivatives, so perhaps this is not entirely OT. > > When I install on a desktop box, I can be reasonably sure to get most of > a working

Re: Orinoco Gold et mode monitor

2006-01-20 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:23:54PM +0100, solo wrote: > Thanks > > Please what is the driver version you use ? > I use the 0.15RC2 !! is it the same for you ?? I've looked through the source (I compiled my kernel from source) and don't see any version numbers on the orinoco source files. They ar

cdc-acm.ko (usb-serial) anyone using it successfully? (sarge)

2006-01-14 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, Well, I've been educating myself re: using the cell phone (Motorola E815) as a modem. In a suitably modern system (sarge) on a machine with working USB ports, plugging the phone generates the voluminous output I posted previously, so the phone is recognized by the USB system, yet the serial p

Re: Orinoco Gold et mode monitor

2006-01-13 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:10:16PM +0100, Patrice PERETTI wrote: > > ... > Did somebody install an orinoco card on debian with a kernel 2.6 ?? And can > help me !! I have a patched orinoco driver working on a thinkpad 600E with kernel 2.6.11 and monitor mode works with kismet. > I can t use the

More info - bad HW, woody does't cut it, now have /dev/ttyACM0

2006-01-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Oh well, I keep posting followups to my own questions... I'm finding more info: 1 - the thinkpad apparently has a hw problem with the USB port, so even though it has the latest OS, it never sees the phone. 2 - The 8600 has good hardware but the OS (woody) is too old. That's the reason

Oops... Didn't have CONFIG_USB_ACM in the running kernel

2006-01-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Found one critical bit of info after I sent the previous message... On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:28:53PM -0500, I wrote: > ... > I've read at www.bitpim.org that a driver called acm handles the usb > serial port in cell phones, but I don't seem to have it in either > kernel 2.4.22 (woody) or 2.6.8 (

Re: UPDATE - Good cell phone to use as modem with Debian? Some success...

2006-01-05 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:12:07AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > >[about the charge function in usb cables ] > > No, most phones are using battery technology and lower voltages these > days that allows for charging from USB. My Motorola RAZR charges from > its USB cable, no problems. The only iss

UPDATE - Good cell phone to use as modem with Debian? cable? bluetooth?

2006-01-04 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi all: I'm starting a new thread on this since the old one ended up concentrating on the relative merits of different providers. Faced with the many decisions regarding phones, cables, bluetooth, etc... The last thing I needed was the additional set of decisions that switching providers would a

More info Re: Good cell phone to use as modem with Debian? cable? bluetooth?

2005-12-15 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:06:34PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Originally I wrote: > > [about what I just found out is called DUN (dialup networking)] > > I used to do this also with a Kyocera phone. Worked well, Verizon used > to just charge minutes for their 14.4k connectivity. They still do a

Good cell phone to use as modem with Debian? cable? bluetooth?

2005-12-14 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello all, My old cell phone (an ancient Audiovox CDM-8100) has died. I used it to connect via ppp, at 14.4k, through an RS-232 cable, to the internet via Verizon's #777 and qnc login. The cofiguration wasn't easy to set up but once done, it worked. And yeah, I'm cheap: I don't need verizon's f

Re: Hard disk makes?

2005-08-10 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:57:50AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm going to head to Frys and look for a new disk for my Toshiba > 2805-S302. The machine came with a 20GB drive, but I find online > sites selling 80GB drives for that laptop -- so I assume that large of > a drive will work. > > Any

Re: Problems with display power management

2005-07-27 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Halva Labella wrote: > Hi again! > > I already posted something on this list, but I did not receive many > answers. I hope to be luckier now:-) I have the same problem. Different laptop, display and kernel. In my case, Dell 8600, nvidia 4400go and

Re: ifplugd, guessnet, ifscheme, netscript, whereami, ... -- what should I use?

2005-06-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:01:51PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:55:41AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > first of all -- is there FAQ somewhere? > > > > > wlan0 (@ my university, my wife's one, Internet cafe) via random DHCP > > server. I used to use ifupdown-roaming on

Re: Sound on Toshiba Tecra 8000 and Sarge/2.6 kernel

2005-04-22 Thread A. F. Cano
A long time ago, I wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> After a few hours of trying, I can't get the sound to work. >> The Toshiba Tecra 8000 has (from everything I've read) the yamaha >> opl3 chipset which requires the snd-opl3sa2 driver. In this page >> >> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2

Sound on Toshiba Tecra 8000 and Sarge/2.6 kernel

2005-04-08 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings, After a few hours of trying, I can't get the sound to work. The Toshiba Tecra 8000 has (from everything I've read) the yamaha opl3 chipset which requires the snd-opl3sa2 driver. In this page http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-November/009979.html Martin Reiche reports

Re: [debian-laptops] Dlink 650 p1 on debian

2004-12-09 Thread A. F. Cano
bly off-list, and see if we can get this card to work with a 2.4 kernel and an encrypted link. === included message = From: Andrew Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] DWL-650 P1 problems Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:21:13 -

Re: Cron startup bug (3.0r2 on Dell 8600/2.4.24)

2004-02-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:58:55PM +0100, Martin Bock wrote: > Hello again! > > > I have a similar problem on my Acer Travelmate 801. Now that I have > > checked the script you mentioned, and found it being correct, I was > > just wondering how to troubleshoot the anacron not starting. Where > > d

Re: Cron startup bug (3.0r2 on Dell 8600/2.4.24)

2004-02-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:43:32PM +1300, Mike Beattie wrote: > ... > So, did you file it as a bug? > > Doesn't look like it: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=powermgmt-base Ok. I have now. Never filed a Debian bug before so didn't know what the proper procedure was. A.

Re: Cron startup bug (3.0r2 on Dell 8600/2.4.24)

2004-02-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:58:55PM +0100, Martin Bock wrote: > Hello again! > > > I have a similar problem on my Acer Travelmate 801. Now that I have > > checked the script you mentioned, and found it being correct, I was > > just wondering how to troubleshoot the anacron not starting. Where > > d

Re: Cron startup bug (3.0r2 on Dell 8600/2.4.24)

2004-02-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:43:32PM +1300, Mike Beattie wrote: > ... > So, did you file it as a bug? > > Doesn't look like it: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=powermgmt-base Ok. I have now. Never filed a Debian bug before so didn't know what the proper procedure was. A. --

Cron startup bug (3.0r2 on Dell 8600/2.4.24)

2004-02-08 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi everyone, This might be old news to everyone else, but I didn't see any reference to it while I was tracking down the problem. Log files were not being rotated, so I started backtracking to find out why. It turns out that Anacron wasn't being started because of a bug in /usr/bin/on_ac_power.

Cron startup bug (3.0r2 on Dell 8600/2.4.24)

2004-02-08 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi everyone, This might be old news to everyone else, but I didn't see any reference to it while I was tracking down the problem. Log files were not being rotated, so I started backtracking to find out why. It turns out that Anacron wasn't being started because of a bug in /usr/bin/on_ac_power.

Driver bug, CD drive while playing audio CD's

2004-02-04 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings all, I wonder if someone else has experienced the following, or can duplicate it. For some time I've known that there was something strange with the CD/DVD drive on this Dell 8600. Early on I got the following log messages: Type: ROM, Vendor 'PHILIPS ' Model 'DVD+RW SDVD6004 ' Revision

Driver bug, CD drive while playing audio CD's

2004-02-04 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings all, I wonder if someone else has experienced the following, or can duplicate it. For some time I've known that there was something strange with the CD/DVD drive on this Dell 8600. Early on I got the following log messages: Type: ROM, Vendor 'PHILIPS ' Model 'DVD+RW SDVD6004 ' Revision

D-Link (pcmcia) DWL-650, debian 3.0r2 and Intel ISA to pcmcia card

2004-01-18 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, After having read quite a bit about what is supported, I went out and got the D-Link DWL-650. This wireless card is listed as working and tested at www.linux-wlan.org, the revision is P1 which according to D-Link is a Prism chipset. According to what I've read, the orinoco_cs driver should s

D-Link (pcmcia) DWL-650, debian 3.0r2 and Intel ISA to pcmcia card

2004-01-18 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, After having read quite a bit about what is supported, I went out and got the D-Link DWL-650. This wireless card is listed as working and tested at www.linux-wlan.org, the revision is P1 which according to D-Link is a Prism chipset. According to what I've read, the orinoco_cs driver should s

laptop-net and ppp (woody on Dell I8600)

2003-10-30 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings everyone, I'm at an impasse: too many variables. I've read the laptop-net manual very carefully, twice, configured laptop-net per the manual, but I'm getting erratic behavior. First the general questions: Does anyone have laptop-net working with ppp? The manual does not mention ppp

laptop-net and ppp (woody on Dell I8600)

2003-10-30 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings everyone, I'm at an impasse: too many variables. I've read the laptop-net manual very carefully, twice, configured laptop-net per the manual, but I'm getting erratic behavior. First the general questions: Does anyone have laptop-net working with ppp? The manual does not mention ppp